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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, which of the following has NOT been one of Hester's "teachers"?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Despair.
(c) Solitude.
(d) Shame.

2. Which character seeks to make him or herself "the one trusted friend, to whom should be confided all the fear"?
(a) Dimmesdale.
(b) Chillingworth.
(c) Hibbins.
(d) Wilson.

3. Who, according to the narrator, is at the "head of the social system" in Puritan times?
(a) Clergy.
(b) Governors.
(c) Witches.
(d) Doctors.

4. Why do most Puritans fast, according to the narrator?
(a) To cure disease.
(b) To conserve food.
(c) To lose weight.
(d) To purify their bodies.

5. The title of Chapter 5 refers to what?
(a) Hester's guilt.
(b) Hester's past.
(c) Hester's love life.
(d) Hester's work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chillingworth is described as which of the following in Chapter 11?

2. What, at the end of Chapter 11, is the "only truth" for Dimmesdale?

3. Why does Hester stay in New England?

4. With what kind of natural objects has Pearl decorated herself in Chapter 18?

5. Who, in Chapter 5, is referred to as "the figure, the body, the reality of sin?"

(see the answer key)

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